Online Summer Art Camp Update: Steve and I are working on the finishing touches today for the Summer Art Camp listings and will have it live right here at the blog tomorrow morning, July 8th. Apologies for the delay!

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17 thoughts on “Why is Creativity Important?”

Hi Carla,
Please thank Wes for me, too:)
I’m looking forward to seeing what you will have going on for Summer Art Camp!
I continue to have lots of creative fun with what I learned in your Gelli Plate Printing class.
Ethel

Without your commitment to creativity and helping others realize theirs do you think your Wes might be a different and possibly less wise young man? Please stop trying to second guess your wonderful self and keep doing what you do best-living a creative life and sharing it so well.

So many of us are in the same boat. I think at some point or another most people reach these same sort of dilemmas asking that same question.

Your son’s response is perfect!!

Just like your son, my daughter recently graduated, too. A college graduation from the U of W, Seattle. Anyhow, I wanted pose the same question to her and see how she would respond.

This is what she said.

“Creativity is another form of communication that goes deeper than most traditional forms of communications that we typically see.

It also is a way to learn of other view points that we might not normally be aware of, that we might not feel or understand ourselves which is good because if all of us thought or felt or believed the same things, that would get really boring and we would never learn anything beyond ourselves.”

Just like you, I love getting her perspective on things! (I think it helps keep me thinking ‘younger’ LOL)

Anyhow, I am really looking forward to learning more about your Summer Camp.

Your books and your energy has been an anchor in helping me recover from three heart attacks…I have a 16 year old….and the joy your work and encouragement has brought has helped me be here for him. Thank you.

Gosh Wes Thanks so much. And Carla, it was ‘meeting’ you here that gave me courage to pick up paints and pencils and see animals and the like in blobs! now what can be more important than that? I need your creativity…

I have come to realize that creating is as vital to our emotional, spiritual and yes, physical health as eating and drinking. It may not be apparent so quickly as going without water but a life void of using the imagination and creating is a life void of life and eventually the effects will be seen.

I’m with Wes too and I think it is a way to slow down our hectic lives from all the things we feel we must do. It gives my brain and spirit a time to rest and feel peace, so keep creating. I used my own sidewalk crack doodle project for an art class for 4th graders I help and THEY LOVED IT!

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Hello! I am Carla Sonheim, a Seattle-based artist who works with drawing, watercolor, and mixed-media. I host online art classes with a variety of talented teachers through Carla Sonheim Presents: carlasonheim.com. I am also the author of 3 instructional art books. Read more here.